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Of course, to say that the alt-right is a recent creation is not to say it is sui generis. Online Culture Wars From 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right makes the alt-right into something both more recent and familiar — a spawn of the internet, as well as a bastard child of the counterculture. At one level, Nagle suggests that there was a symbiosis between the social-justice left and the alt-right:

Not that Palin often seems stuck for words. Giving voice to the voiceless is instinctive for this most eloquent and beguiling of men — whether that be a tribesman, a lost sister, a mother discussing the unmentionable business of sex in the Forties — or a prison inmate. But her book is a welcome rejoinder to the common-enough notion that the alt-right has merely repackaged old or discredited ideas about race and masculinity in a newer, edgier form.